"You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard tack, and a little sugar and coffee" -- Sitting Bull
Words of Wisdom From Sitting Bull: Don't be so eager to let the Government control your LIFE!
Despite what some in the press may say, we who are proud to call ourselves "conservative" are not a minority of a minority party; we are part of the great majority of Americans of both major parties and of most of the independents as well.
Navy SEALs as you read last week are getting a Court Martial for being too rough on a terrorist. Ahmed Hashim Abed is believed to have planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush that resulted in the murder of four Americans. Our Navy SEALs captured this terrorist scum and Abed is claiming he was unjustly roughed up. Now this terrorist is using our court system to go after the SEALs. Our weekly video is about the case if you need to get updated.
By John Boehner
Here are the top 10 facts every American should know about Senator Baucus’ proposed government takeover of health care:
1. Medicare Cuts Mean Reduced Benefits, Fewer Choices for Seniors. The Baucus plan cuts Medicare by nearly $500 billion, slashing coverage millions of seniors depend on. These benefit cuts will ultimately eliminate choices currently enjoyed by seniors today. Doug Elmendorf, the head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, told the Senate Finance Committee yesterday he “expected the Medicare Advantage plans to lose 2.7 million enrollees over the next decade” as a result of the Baucus plan.
2. Individual Mandate Results in Hefty Tax Increase for Millions of Americans. The Baucus plan mandates that every American buy health insurance or pay a hefty new tax to Washington of up to $1,900 per year. This new tax will take another $20 billion hard earned dollars from working families. Especially during a recession, this new tax will place another large burden on the family budget.
3. No Junk Lawsuit Reform to Reduce Health Care Costs. The Baucus plan includes only a “Sense of the Senate” with respect to the very pressing issue of junk lawsuit reform. Seriouschanges are needed to reduce costly,unnecessary defensive medicine practiced by doctorstrying to protect themselves from a feeding frenzy of trial lawyers. The Baucusplan misses an opportunity for real reform.
4. New Taxes Harm Small Businesses, Costs Jobs. The Baucus plan saddles small businesses that have more than 50 employees with a new tax of up to $199,600 per year if they do not provide health coverage to their employees. Census data compiled by the Small Business Administration, however, reveals that the Baucus “small business exemption” – for businesses with fewer than 50 employees – will still subject many small employers to new taxes and mandates. In fact, this so-called “exemption” could still subject 220,000 small businesses that employ 44% of all small business employees and 22% of the entire private sector workforce to the new taxes and mandates. The 220,000 small businesses targeted by the Baucus plan employ 26.4 million employees and provide those employees $982 billion in wages annually.
5. Higher Health Care Costs for Working Families. The Baucus plan would actually raise insurance premiums for working families, not lower them. In a letter to Chairman Baucus, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office stated, “premiums in the new insurance exchanges would tend to be higher than the average premiums in the current-law individual market…” Meanwhile, a recent study published in Health Affairs found that a government-run plan similar to the one being proposed in House Democrats’ bill could cause annual insurance premiums for a family of four to increase by more than $4,500.
6. $420 Billion in New Tax Increases on Families & Small Businesses. The Baucus plan includes a host of new taxes on American families and job creators. Taxes on individuals who are uninsured, taxes on employers that do not offer health insurance coverage, and taxes on health care products like wheelchairs and other medical devices and insurance are just some of the more than $420 billion in new tax increases included in the bill. At a time when families and small businesses are already struggling to make ends meet, new taxes of this magnitude would only further slow the economy and raise the cost of care for those patients who need it most.
7. Lower Wages and More Unemployment. The Baucus plan would impose a new $27 billion tax on employers, including small businesses, that cannot afford to provide health coverage or that don’t offer coverage. The effect of this type of tax, similar to a payroll tax increase, would ultimately fall squarely on workers in the form of lower wages or reduced employment. In fact, the Tax Policy Center concluded that “economists generally believe that the burden of payroll taxes is borne by workers in the form of lower wages, regardless of whether the tax is levied on the employer or the employee.” The tax proposed in the Baucus plan will likely have the same effect.
8. Higher Taxes on American Manufacturers. In order to find revenue to “pay for” his plan, Senator Baucus included massive new taxes on various industry segments in the health care sector. These new taxes include $17.2 billion tax on pharmaceutical manufacturers, a $30 billion tax on medical device manufacturers, and a $45 billion tax on health insurers. These massive tax increases on American manufacturers will be passed on to American families, and they will make the cost of health care more expensive. These tax increases will also serve as a major disincentive for innovation, capital investment and job creation. With some Senate Democrats clamoring for additional – and costly – subsidies, how many more tax increases will be added before it goes for a vote in the Senate? When will Democrats reveal what other tax increases they have in store for American working families and employers?
9. A Lack of Support From Senate Democrats. Key Senate Democrats have voiced concern about the Baucus plan, including Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV,) who said “there is no way” he would support it “unless it changes in the amendment process by vast amounts.” What’s more, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) described the Medicare cuts in the Baucus plan as “intolerable” in remarks on the Senate floor last week, while Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) “complained the legislation would ask working Americans to commit as much as 13% of their income to buy basic insurance,” calling it a “real hit on middle-class families.”
10. Is the Baucus Plan Written in Invisible Ink? While House Democrats have marked up legislation in three different committees, the Senate Finance Committee is taking a different approach. The Committee is working off of a framework document that summarizes what they would like to do, but doesn’t offer specifics on how it would be done. That leaves big questions about just how this plan will work and doesn’t allow for a full and transparent debate on the plan. At a time when the American people are asking their legislators, “Have you read the bill?” the clear answer among Senate Finance Committee members will be “no.”
BONUS: House Republicans have offered fiscally responsible solutions to make health care more affordable and accessible for every American. Our proposals recognize the need to implement reforms that build on what works in health care, rather than replacing it with a one-size-fits-all government-run system.
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Health Care Reform Bill:
In Plain English
Posted on Fri., July 24, 09 by CMS
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Health card.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private health care plans must conform to government rules to participate
in a Health care Exchange.
• Page 84: All private health care plans must participate in the Health care Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll <>BR • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Tele-health Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
I got this from Askheritage.com read this:
Last week, House Democrats unveiled their much-anticipated health care plan– the same day that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a preliminary scoring of the bill putting a $1.3 trillion price tag on the effort. Weighing in at 1,018 pages, that comes to $1.264 billion per page. But even this analysis understates the true costs of the bill. The CBO only scores bills on a ten-year time frame. So, that $1.3 trillion price tag will only get bigger after 10 years, not smaller, and will do nothing to fix the catastrophic long-term fiscal path on which it places our country.
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Tea Party Patriots Give Us Something To Ponder
Go to teapartypatriots.org
Spending, Spending:
The current administration has spent trillions of dollars so far and we are setting new records for debt every day. Spending in
2009 has increased in excess of 25%, which is the largest non- war government expansion since the New Deal. Government Healthcare is a multi-trillion dollar program, which will crush an already embattled private sector economy, while
government continues to grow.
Medicare is Government Health care:
Take a look at all the fraud and waste! Do you really want this?
An estimated $68 BILLION in FRAUD every year – a shining and undeniable example of government incompetence in
handling the nation’s health care system. The system is currently insolvent, and is projected to be completely bankrupt in seven years. Who will pay for THAT bail out? You know who…you will.
The Proposed Government Takeover of the Health Care Industry:
Independent projections tell us that
- As many as 119 million Americans could lose the coverage they have today if a government plan is introduced. Employers
would be incentivized to drop private coverage, regardless of individual preferences in the matter.
- Bureaucrats and politicians, not families, will control health care choices and decisions. The horror stories of long waits and denied treatment in countries with government health care systems cannot be denied. Government health care doesn’t work.
- Even the White House says the President's rhetoric shouldn't be taken "literally" when he promises you won't lose your current plan. They understand private insurers will be incentivized out of markets which will no longer be “free.”
The Politicians are out of Touch
- They need to get spending under control, and eliminate fraud and inefficiency in existing government programs. We need to reform what
we are doing, not spend more
money we don't have.
The Common Sense, Tea Party Patriots Solution:
Health Care Reform: Instead of introducing a massive government-run health care plan, Congress should:
- Enact legislation giving families control of their health care by making insurance plans portable,
- Reform the tax system to allow the same tax incentives for all insurance purchasers (employers and the self employed should be able to deduct healthcare expenses),
- Reform the litigation system to decrease inappropriate malpractice and liability claims against all facets of the medical
profession and industry in order to reduce costs.
- Allow the free market to deliver real competition.
As a matter of principle, The Tea Party Patriots are firmly committed to supporting the fight for genuine access to affordable, quality health care for every American. The time has come to create a balanced, common sense approach that will guarantee that Americans receive the care they deserve and which will still protect the sacred doctor-patient relationship. We will oppose any system run by politicians or bureaucrats granted the right to deny citizens and physicians the treatments they believe are in a patient’s best interest. And we demand that the government clean its house of billions of waste, fraud and abuse to fund the necessary changes.
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Health Care Reform
Call your congressmen and tell them not to socialize your health care. Medicare and Medicade are broke and they want to run health care for all Americans. We need to stop this so use your voice, use your pen or send an email let them know we wont stand for this.
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by Bridget Geegan Blanton
Spreading throughout the national narrative straight from the deplorable policy tank of social engineers is a new, politically correct description for Low Income Housing. Absent as usual from the social engineering agenda, is freedom in educational choice or a single, truly uplifting measure; instead it’s just more of the same oppressive, governmental intervention. The spiritually stifling new narrative is predictably uninspiring which is always the case for big government programs and socially engineered societal models.
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you and I are facing an assault on our gun rights like we’ve never seen before. You see, H.R. 45 is Barack Obama’s gun control package, and it includes the most vile anti-gun measures he’s supported over the years. It's only the first step but it's a HUGE step. H.R.45 establishes a NATIONAL gun registry database of every gun and its owner for the whole county! Your private information and every gun you own would be in the system But that’s only if you succeed in buying a gun in the first place! And since H.R. 45 dramatically increases requirements for firearms purchases far beyond those ever proposed, you just might find yourself incapable of buying a firearm once this bill takes effect. And it gets worse too...
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Day 2 Jan. 21, 2009 Appoints A Tax Cheat.
"These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes. But they were unintentional. I should have been more careful."
—Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary–nominee, apologizing for owing $34,000 in payroll and Social Security taxes from 2001 and 2002 at his Senate confirmation hearing
"For a long time now there's been too much secrecy in this city. Transparency and rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."
—President Obama, at a swearing-in ceremony for senior officials before announcing new ethics rules.
Day 3 Jan. 22, 2009 Aids Terrorist.
"We are not ... going to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals. We think that it is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world."
—President Obama, signing an Executive Order to shutter the Guantánamo Bay detention facility within a year.
Day 4 Jan. 23, 2009 Comforts Terrorist, But Chooses Death for Babies.
"Yesterday, President Obama issued Executive Orders banning the torture of terrorists, but today [he] signed an order that exports the torture of unborn children around the world."
—Tony Perkins, Family Research Council president, criticizing Obama's decision to sign a memorandum ending the ban on the so-called global gag rule governing U.S. family-planning dollars spent abroad.
"For eight long years, the global gag rule has been used by the Bush Administration to play politics with the lives of poor women across the world."
—Gill Greer of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London, praising Obama's decision to sign the memorandum.
Day 7 Jan. 26, 2009 Obama Diplomacy
"I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy."
—President Obama, speaking with the Dubai-based Arabic-language news network al-Arabiya during his first formal interview since becoming President
Day 8 Jan. 27, 2009 No Republican Voted For Obama’s Pork Spending Bill
"Feel free to whack me over the head because I probably will not compromise on that part."
—President Obama in a private meeting with House Republicans, after being asked if there was room for negotiation on the structure of the biggest tax cut in the stimulus bill.
"I think we will have Republican support for this bill."
—Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, assuring reporters that he expects the President to get backing from Republicans on the stimulus bill.
Day 9 Jan. 28, 2009 How Many Jobs Did The Pork Bill Produce?
"The most important number here for this recovery plan is how many jobs it produces, not how many votes it gets."
—Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, responding to the House's passage of the stimulus bill without a single GOP vote.
Day 10 Jan. 29, 2009 Obama Controlling The Free Market.
"That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful ... There will be time for them to make profits and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now's not that time."
—President Obama, responding to a report that Wall Street bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in bonuses even as the government was spending billions to bail them out.
Day 12 Jan. 31, 2009 Its Funny to Have A Foul Mouth Chief of Staff
"In just the first few weeks, I've had to engage in some of the toughest diplomacy of my life. And that was just to keep my BlackBerry."
"Now, this hasn't been reported yet, but it was actually Rahm's idea to do the swearing-in ceremony again. Of course, for Rahm, every day is a swearing-in ceremony."
—President Obama, cracking jokes regarding his insistence on keeping his BlackBerry and his chief of staff's profanity at the annual D.C. Alfalfa dinner.
Day 15 Feb. 3, 2009 All of Obama Picks Are Shady.
"If 30 years of exposure to the challenges inherent in our system has taught me anything, it has taught me that this work will require a leader who can operate with the full faith of Congress and the American people, and without distraction. Right now, I am not that leader, and will not be a distraction."
—Tom Daschle, Health and Human Services Secretary nominee, in a statement pulling out of the running for the position over his tax problems.
"I'm here on television saying I screwed up."
—President Obama, in a round-robin of television interviews responding to questions about two of his Cabinet nominees dropping out in one day because of tax problems.
Day 16 Feb. 4, 2009 Failed Theories Pres. Reagan Created 20 Million Jobs With Tax Cuts and They Were Private Sector Jobs NOT GOVT JOBS.
"Now, in the past few days I've heard criticisms of this plan that echo the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis — the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems. I reject that theory, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."
—President Obama, rejecting GOP arguments that more tax cuts are needed to fix the economy while urging Congress to support his stimulus proposal.
"We're going to be demanding some restraint in exchange for federal aid so that when firms seek new federal dollars, we won't find them up to the same old tricks."
—President Obama, announcing a $500,000 pay cap on top business leaders whose firms receive federal bailout funds.
Day 17 Feb. 5, 2009 Obama Would Know He Sat In Rev. Wrights Church.
"Too often we have seen faith wielded as a tool to divide us from one another, as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance."
—President Obama, in remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
Day 21 Feb. 9, 2009 And Unemployment Is Going To Hit A Perfect 10.
"The plan is not perfect. No plan is. I can't tell you for sure that everything in this plan will work exactly as we hope, but I can tell you with complete confidence that a failure to act will only deepen this crisis."
—President Obama, pushing his stimulus package in his first prime-time presser before taking a slew of questions from reporters.
Day 25 Feb. 13, 2009 Obama Passes Major Debt To Our Children.
"This is not the smart approach. The taxpayers of today and tomorrow will be left to clean up the mess."
—Mitch McConnell, Republican Senator from Kentucky, after the stimulus narrowly passes both chambers of Congress.
Day 26 Feb. 14, 2009 Estimated Cost For Just The Flight $228,000 For Tax Payers.
"It's crazy. You're eating dinner 30 feet from the most famous person in the world."
—Brandon Byrne, a 22-year-old Northwestern student, after spotting the Obamas on a Valentine's Day date in Chicago restaurant Table Fifty-Two.
Day 31 Feb. 19, 2009 Obama Rewards Bad Behavior.
"The government is promoting bad behavior ... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills? Raise your hand. President Obama, are you listening?"
—Rick Santelli of CNBC, complaining from the Chicago Board of Trade about President Obama's mortgage-bailout plan, as traders urged him on.
And This is only 31 days
you can believe in...
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Our Second Amendment Is Under Attack (Continued)
...I want you to understand just how dangerous of this bill is You see, H.R. 45 would establish a national gun registry database which would: Increase requirements for firearms purchases, far beyond those ever proposed Create a national firearms registry overseen by the Federal Government. Invoke Draconian penalties for bookkeeping errors related to the Federal Firearms Database.
It gets worse though. Sarah Brady and her allies in Congress want to force you to take a written exam to prove that you are "fit" to exercise your Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms I'm outraged by this, and I know you are too. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that gun registration has historically laid the ground- work for total firearm confiscation. Citizen disarmament is the watchword of tyrants everywhere. In fact, the most brutal dictators of the last century were famous for their gun registration and confiscation schemes.
But H.R. 45, Obama's National Gun Registry and Citizen Disarmament Act, is more than just a forced registration of all firearms in America. The bill also makes it increasingly difficult to buy a gun in the first place. Taken right out of Sarah Brady's Christmas wish list, H.R. 45 includes a laundry list of new restrictions on firearms purchases.
In addition to the outrageous national gun registration requirement, H.R. 45 also requires you to:
Pass a written examination to purchase a firearm Release your medical records including confidential mental health records -- to the government to get your "fitness" to own a firearm approved.
Observe a two-day waiting period before all firearms purchases.
Pay a gun tax of $25 or more on all firearm purchases.
Moreover, H.R. 45 bans all private firearms sales and maximizes penalties for minor clerical errors in dealing with the national gun registry. The list goes on and on. It's enough to turn your stomach. I know I don't have to tell you, but these restrictions make a mockery of the Constitution. "The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" might as well say: "You have no rights." If a two-day waiting period, a written exam and a gun tax aren't infringing our rights, I don't know what is Even the Supreme Court’s recent Heller decision guaranteeing an individual’s right to own a firearm doesn’t hamper Barack Obama’s agenda one bit. In fact, it emboldens gun grabbers to pass legislation taxing ammunition, increasing registration requirements, and drastically limiting when, how and where you can use your firearm.
With liberals calling the shots in Washington, all supporters of the Second Amendment must join together, draw a line in the sand, and fight this battle to the end. We must make this gun-grab politically painful for the enemies of freedom. If we do, they'll flinch ... and LOSE By mobilizing hundreds of thousands of grassroots gun owners across the country can put anti-gun politicians on the hot seat. Are you opposed to national gun registration Are you opposed to a written examination to buy a gun Are you opposed to a new $25 gun tax Are you opposed to a total ban on private firearm sales The truth is, H.R. 45 is just the tip of the iceberg. Sarah Brady and her cohorts in Congress now have the support of a willing White House and won't stop until they've reached their ultimate goal: A virtual ban on private, individual firearm ownership. It's critical we do all we can For Freedom and Liberty. Call your Representatives go to town halls, Protest outside ther office and let them know we wont stand for this.